Ryan Wojes

Worked at a startup materials design company in Evanston, Illinois before beginning his career in heavy manufacturing.

Worked as a Metallurgical Engineer for ArcelorMittal USA, transforming scrap metal into useful steel products

Experience

Ryan Wojes is a former writer for The Balance covering investing, commodities, and metals. He contributed content for a year,

Wojes serves as Superintendent/Heat Treating at Union Electrical Steel in Pennsylvania. He previously served as Superintendent of Quality Assurance and Process Engineering at Union Electric Akers and as Senior Metallurgical Engineer at EVRAZ North America in Portland, Oregon.

Awards and Publications

Won first place for his undergraduate research at the AISTech 2007 Project Presentation Contest

Author of a subnanoscale study of the nucleation, growth, and coarsening kinetics of Cu-rich precipitates in a multicomponent Fe–Cu based steel for the International Journal of Materials Research in 2008

Education

Wojes holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University.

About The Balance and Dotdash

The Balance makes personal finance easy to understand. It is home to experts who provide clear, practical advice on managing your money. Whether you’re looking to invest, buy a home, save for retirement, or achieve another financial goal, The Balance will answer your questions with straightforward personal financial advice.

The Balance is part of the Dotdash publishing family. For more than 20 years, Dotdash brands have been helping people find answers, solve problems, and get inspired. We are one of the top-20 largest content publishers on the internet, according to comScore, and reach more than 30% of the U.S. population every month. Most recently, Dotdash was named Publisher of the year by Digiday, a leading industry publication.